An architectural, asymmetrical accordion-style artist book Installation; 6-line poem by BB.
The paper-wrapped cover board folds under the project during display, revealing the last line of the poem and a shallow recess cut to hold the architectural fold. When not displayed the sculptural part of the book stores safely in a recess inside the work’s base platform, which doubles as the book’s back cover.
Quarter bound with a shaped Kraft-tex leather spine, titles on cover and spine. Large folio size, measuring 28 inches wide by 12.25 inches deep by 5/8 inches tall (71 x 31 x 1.6 cm) when closed, and 28 inches wide by 12.25 inches deep by 10 inches tall (71 x 31 x 25.5 cm) when displayed. Letterpress in 2 colors and debossing on the architectural piece, screen printing on the base, and titles. Edition of 10, signed and numbered.
My artist books, broadsides, and loose-leaf editions are published in very small numbers, as low as five. All are hand-printed and hand-bound (in the case of books) by me, all are signed and numbered. While I am trying to be perfect, I am human, not a machine. Some variations in the editioned work are to be expected due to the processes, materials, and the artist’s change of mind. It is exactly what makes the work collectible: each piece is an original work of art. The pieces employ printmaking like original etchings, woodcuts, carborundum, screen prints, monotype, monoprint, and letterpress. Rarely is any part produced using digital methods, and if so it is clearly indicated, and only when no other options were available.